By Sandy Stringfellow ——Bio and Archives--November 16, 2014
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"These days you hear all of these politicians, they denounce Barack Obama, saying he's a lawless imperial and ignores court orders and changes laws by fiat and refuses to enforce laws he just doesn't like. That's true. But the question is, 'Hey politicians, what are you going to do about it?'"Gov. Palin's admonition frames a glaring question, "What does the Republican Party stand for?" It is a question that must be quickly resolved if conservatism is to ever again win the crucial cross-over votes required for a presidential election victory under the Republican Party banner. Various commentators indicate the Republican Party leaders are gutless; afraid of King Barry and the political fallout they face from holding him accountable for lawless, unconstitutional actions, replete with racially-charged accusations of bigotry, hatred, and jealousy. Unfortunately, the real problem now is one of complicity and corruption, not weakness; unless it is the "weakness" of an ugly, ignoble sort: a weakness of spirit, allowing the criminally traitorous to sleep each night; the next day ready to "game the system" for ever-more wealth, power, privilege, perks, and personal pleasures to which the political class and their ruling class overlords are accustomed inside an other-worldly Beltway Bubble, as the country that made it possible--their own country--slips into the abyss as a direct result of their immorality, hubris, and indifference. Remarkable as it is, many Republican Party loyalists believe the Progressive RINO Establishment does not represent the same threat level to our republic as the Progressive New Democrat Party; never mind King Barry and his Progressive Marxist ideologues: they are typically lumped together with every other progressive by those in "conservative" media. For these "experts" the simpler things are, the better. This simplistic view distills into a equation: Progressives/liberals bad, Republicans good. A far more accurate accounting of the Progressive RINO Establishment past would detail the long-running attacks against constitutional conservatives: a Bush/Romney cabal tried to derail Ronald Reagan's political efforts to promote constitutional conservatism through fabrications and distortions of truth about him (George Romney and Bush 41); the same familial establishment attacks Sarah Palin relentlessly today. Reagan was--as is Palin now (being the only reformer with a record to prove it)--a focal point of real concern for the Progressive RINO Establishment. Reagan is still under attack, as the Progressive RINO Establishment tries to re-write known factual history, mitigating the constitutional conservative threat posed by Reagan's lasting words to an American electorate: the words of a constitutional scholar.
With the upcoming budget bill being the last remaining check on Obama's power, Boehner, McCarthy and their GOP leadership lieutenants are whipping support for long-term funding for everything Obama is requesting. Yet, today, there was no opposition at a time when Republicans could have made bold promises to one another. Just hours before winning reelection to his speakership, Breitbart reported that Boehner said the following to Obama about paying his ransom on immigration: "After a White House meeting last week, Republicans described Speaker John Boehner aggressively confronting President Obama over the president's planned executive amnesty, prompting an extended period of a defensive Obama attempting to justify his actions. But a key moment of the meeting, left out from those accounts, was unveiled by Boehner himself in an exuberant moment of boasting in a closed-door meeting with GOP colleagues minutes ago. Boehner recalled telling Obama, 'Mr. President, just give us one more chance to do this the right way. If we can't, then do what you gotta do.'" So Boehner is telling Obama that he will have the green light to pass amnesty, but asked for permission to try one more time to pass it legislatively? I have this quote mentioned by Breitbart confirmed by several people in the room when Boehner said it. Read that again. Boehner told the GOP conference behind closed doors that he told Obama he has the green light to shred our constitution and destroy our sovereignty if Republicans don't do it through regular order. And then he was reelected Speaker just hours later!Rush Limbaugh pointed to the problem of legal "chain migration" on his program (Nov. 13, 2014):
In two years, when we win it all, then we can round 'em up and send 'em back? That's not gonna happen. There's no way that is going to happen. This thing has to be stopped, and there are ways. Even after he does it, there are ways to stop it with defunding it. There are any number of ways. There are all kinds of mechanisms. The question is whether or not the Republicans are going to have the gonads to do any of it. It seems it always comes down to that. But this? We can't just stand idly by and try to find some political opportunity while the president basically shreds the Constitution and flushes it down the toilet. That's not the way this is supposed to work. [...] You and I knew. The people of Murrieta, California, knew what was coming next. Everybody knew these kids' parents were next, and that's what I was pointing out back [in August]. I said, "It doesn't matter that they're children because what the American people know is that the parents of these kids are next if something isn't done to stop this."Daniel Greenfield provides a preview of the inevitable--if the Progressive RINO Establishment has its way--through his article "Super-Amnesty Will Turn Every City into Detroit" in FrontPage Magazine (July 9, 2014):
Homicide rates overlap with unemployment rates, especially when accounting for the demographic populations of young minority men who are statistically more likely to kill or be killed. 92% of black male teens in Chicago don't have a job. In Detroit, 50% of black men are unemployed. It's not that there aren't any jobs, but the entry level jobs have been mostly going to immigrants. The Center for Immigration Studies found that under Obama two-thirds of jobs went to immigrants, both legal and illegal. Throw in a massive illegal alien amnesty and the rush of illegal aliens into the country will turn the employment figures of every city into Detroit and Chicago. The black male unemployment rate in New York was at 33%. And the murder rate in New York is significantly lower than in Detroit or Chicago. But how long will that last if the unemployment rate in New York rises above 50%? Before long the marginal gangs will swell to monstrous sizes controlling entire neighborhoods. Anyone who can will flee and the city will once again become what it was. The same process will take place in most major American cities.The Progressive RINO Establishment are criminally corrupt traitors, having sworn an oath to God on the Bible to defend the Constitution; instead, they disregard it, disrespect it, disenfranchise it and wreck it, aiding and abetting Progressive Marxists in their mission of surreptitious cultural and institutional destruction of our republic from within while facilitating the total collapse of free capital markets. And yet Congress--with all of its' constitutional power as detailed in Article I, Sections 7 and 8, of the U.S. Constitution--will not stem the carnage. The stealth techniques of the Progressive RINO Establishment to obfuscate sympathetic destruction from both their action and inaction are cynical, clever, and numerous: base line budgeting, disguising their votes on wretched legislation by allowing it to reach the floor when passage was assured, the "voice vote" on which Boehner was re-elected as Speaker of the House, not to mention the flagrant illegalities they pulled off against Chris McDaniel in Mississippi. And now Boehner and McConnell seek to pass an Omnibus Spending Bill--once again giving King Barry everything he desires--before the newly-elected Congress is seated, instead of a continuing resolution to get by on? That is not an accidental happenstance; it is by design, through complicity. Perhaps it's time to light up the Beltway Bubble switchboards; to share our thoughts? The American Revolution was fought over far less than what is transpiring today. The least we can do is make our best effort to restore what we've been given through the tremendous valor and wisdom of those embracing a vision set forth during our founding. We owe it to them, to our children, and to those not yet born. © Sandy Stringfellow/2014
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Sandy Stringfellow is a writer and musician with an interest in history, economics, and politics. A fifth generation Floridian, he was born and raised in Gainesville, Florida. From an early age he developed a fascination with music, eventually playing in a variety of local bands.
Sandy continued to write as he made his living in the fields of commercial carpentry and retail sales. In 2001 one he established a home studio, where he records his songs.
He is currently employed driving tractor/semi-trailer combinations around Florida. Sandy can be reached on Facebook.